book report – 18 aug 2015

books – 18 aug 2015

This week, I finished yet another book! Thankfully, I’m finding even a few more moments here and there to read once again.

I finished Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola. I wasn’t sure if I’d like it, but I ended up really enjoying it and her honesty about the things that were difficult for her. She’s coming to the book festival, and I might try to get to her talk.

I continued reading The China Study by T. Colin Campbell. I’m not really enjoying it. Too many different studies and too focused on talking about how bad the Atkins Diet is.

I read a few more chapters of Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics by Gary Smith. I’m still enjoying it, but I hope to finish it soon…

I am slowly making my way through The College Solution: A Guide for Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price (2nd Edition) by Lynn O’Shaughnessy. I find it to be quite helpful.

I also got Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges by Loren Pope out from the library. I haven’t started it, but I hope I learn something from it. Unfortunately, it is a very old edition.

I don’t think I read any of this other book this week. Too many books in progress already!

• The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane

I keep a list of completed books on Goodreads. I also keep one here on my blog.